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New Scientist recently reported another delay to China's third crewed spaceflight that will feature a spacewalk. The reason proffered for the revised inflated schedule is to ensure the testing of the astronaut's suit. But what seems to appear a little fishy is that the new date just happens to be a few weeks after the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Image from Stefan Landsberger.

Shanghaiist is not about to engage in an argument on the socio-economic impact that China's one-child policy has had on all aspects of the country's existence and future. We recognize the importance of population control in a country that continues to struggle with large-scale poverty, underemployment, unemployment, a weakened social welfare system and disappearing farmable land to grow enough food for a 1.3 billion (and growing) population. We definitely don't want to get into a debate about that "deep-rooted Chinese concept that males are superior to females." But this kind of whitewashing of the one-child policy in a country that has the most unbalanced population ratio in the world can be called irresponsible at best. And it is certainly not going to help all of those poor, abandoned -- or worse -- baby girls:

With forecasts calling for temps reaching 38 degrees -- that's 101 for you Fahrenheit folks ... and damn hot for everyone else -- Shanghai dwellers will be looking for ways to keep cool this coming week. If you don't want to beat the heat in a large air-conditioned shopping mall, it's time to find a good place to swim. But what if your apartment doesn't have a swimming pool?